C.R.A.C.K. Users Are Addictive

Barry Boehm, inventor of the spiral model of software development, may also be the originator of the CRACK acronym for the type of users we want on our projects. When defining (and executing on) projects, we don’t just want CRACK users, we want CRACK stakeholders. And we want them to stick around. In fact, we’re addicted to them.

What Are CRACK Users?

We are not talking about substance abusers here. We are talking about users, and stakeholders in general, who have the following characteristics:

Before giving Mike all the credit, I wanted to see if anyone else was writing about CRACK users. Several of the top search results pointed to articles or presentations by Barry Boehm, who, due to his significant software engineering contributions, gets our “he must have invented it” accreditation.

As a quick tangent – during the search, I found a couple presentations by Barry were awesome.

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